Find parent directory of a path

Question

Is there any way to find the parent directory of a path using NSFileManager or something?

e.g. Take this:

/path/to/something

And turn it into

/path/to/

Answer 1

The NSString method -stringByDeletingLastPathComponent does just that.

You can use it like this:

NSLog(@"%@", [@"/tmp/afolder" stringByDeletingLastPathComponent]); 

And it will log /tmp.